Bone-Chilling Mistakes Hospitals Make And Why They Don’t Want You To Know

August 6, 2013

FORBES   Leah Binder  7/15/2013  Claire* was detained by security at the airport when the metal detector went off. Guards couldn’t figure out why. Eventually, they let her board the flight, but when she arrived home she immediately asked her doctor to order an X-Ray. The result: There in Claire’s abdomen, clear as day, was a retractor, a surgical instrument the size of a crowbar, somehow left behind from her recent surgery.  Read more